Vocation statistics

Zenit just posted an article which surveyed 60% of the U.S. seminarians who will be ordained to the priesthood this year (and if that isn't a good sample size, I don't know what is!) Here are the statistics. Let's see how I measure up!

-- Seven in 10 report their primary race as Caucasian, European American, or white.
I'm definitely European American

-- Of the 33% of ordinands born outside the United States, the largest numbers come from Vietnam, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines.
I'm not foreign-born, but dang - 33% is a lot!

-- Some 6% are converts to the Catholic faith.
I am not a convert.

-- More than six in 10 ordinands have a college degree from before entering the seminary.
I'll be graduating Penn State in a few weeks; this trend of entering after college will probably continue and grow stronger.

-- Half of responding ordinands attended a Catholic elementary school.
Nope. Public school kid all my life.

-- About two-thirds of the group had full-time jobs before going to the seminary.
Nope. Going straight into seminary after college.

-- The average age at which they began considering a vocation was 17.
That's about right. I had the first inklings the summer before I entered Penn State, when I was 18. Then during freshman year was when the Lord really presented me with my vocation.